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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6244 on: August 02, 2022, 02:42:05 PM »
Same here.
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« Reply #6245 on: August 02, 2022, 03:19:20 PM »
just need rain
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« Reply #6246 on: August 02, 2022, 03:28:29 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on August 02, 2022, 03:19:20 PM
just need rain
No measurable rainfall at my house since the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend.  That's 67 days and counting...
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« Reply #6247 on: August 02, 2022, 03:57:51 PM »
58 days for Colleyville
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« Reply #6248 on: August 02, 2022, 03:59:12 PM »


Humidity 41%
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6249 on: August 06, 2022, 03:54:44 PM »
If I'm reading this properly,  the legislation if passed, is projected to reduce CO2 emissions by a bit less than a gigaton per year.  That's nice of course, but kind of a drop in the bucket.  China dumps 11.5 gigatons per year by itself, and that figure is increasing.  

The carbon budget explained: how much CO2 can we emit and still save the climate? - LifeGate

Scientists have made different calculations to work out how much of the carbon budget humanity still has at its disposal. A think tank called MCC, using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), stated that at the end of 2017 we had a budget of no more than 420 gigatonnes of CO2 if we want to stay within 1.5 degrees of warming, that is 42 gigatonnes per year (or 1.332 tonnes per second).

The problem, however, is that in 2019, before the paralysis caused by coronavirus, global emissions reached 52.4 gigatonnes. This was revealed by the United Nations’ Emissions Gap Report. In fact, if we also account for emissions related to changes in land use (deforestation above all), the figure rises to 59.1. At this rate, we will have burned through our remaining carbon budget by the end of 2027 for the 1.5-degree scenario, and by 2045 for the 2-degree scenario. The MCC published a countdown to these dates: the Carbon Clock.





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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6250 on: August 06, 2022, 04:14:07 PM »
what legislation is that CD
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6251 on: August 07, 2022, 04:28:08 AM »
Harris breaks 50-50 deadlock to advance landmark climate, tax, health bill | The Hill

For only $37 billion a year, they "solved" the climate problem.  
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« Reply #6252 on: August 07, 2022, 06:18:00 AM »
I'll never understand how one side of the political spectrum poo-poos this problem so hard  First, you denied (deny still?) that it's a problem at all, then bitch about it when trying to combat it isn't free.  

If freedom isn't free, neither is reversing the 150 years of pumping extra CO2 into the air at a rate so high that it would naturally take thousands of years to pump as much into the atmosphere.  
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« Reply #6253 on: August 07, 2022, 06:21:13 AM »
If only we could extract electrical power from bullshit.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6254 on: August 07, 2022, 06:33:43 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 07, 2022, 06:18:00 AM
I'll never understand how one side of the political spectrum poo-poos this problem so hard  First, you denied (deny still?) that it's a problem at all, then bitch about it when trying to combat it isn't free. 
As this comes directly after my post, I'll note (again) that I specifically do NOT deny climate change is serious and mandmade.  I do note the obvious fact that these "bills" to spend $37 billion a year on subsidies and whatnot are woefully inadequate, if the models are more or less correct.    WOEFULLY.

This is political pandering, not a real serious solution or even an approach to one.  But the pandering obviously works for some.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6255 on: August 07, 2022, 06:48:57 AM »
It's easy to make commitments:

US pledges to dramatically slash greenhouse emissions over next decade (nature.com)

Yay, a pledge.

It's even possible to pass some legislation that does "something", like this bill in Congress, yay, it does something.

It's much much much harder to see any realistic path in the future to doing anything of real consequence about this.  It's just not going to happen, there is no realistic practicable solution here.

At the Paris climate meeting in 2015, governments committed to limit global warming to 1.5–2 °C above pre-industrial levels, in an effort to prevent a cascade of potential catastrophic impacts, including increases in extreme weather, the destruction of natural ecosystems and damages to agricultural systems.

Although many governments have begun to bend the emissions curve downwards by adopting climate policies that advance clean-energy development, international commitments have fallen well short of that 2015 goal: on the basis of current policies, the world is currently on track for around a 3 °C rise, according to Climate Action Tracker, an international consortium of scientists and policy specialists that monitors efforts to implement the Paris accord.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6256 on: August 07, 2022, 08:13:58 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 07, 2022, 06:18:00 AM
I'll never understand how one side of the political spectrum poo-poos this problem so hard  First, you denied (deny still?) that it's a problem at all, then bitch about it when trying to combat it isn't free. 

If freedom isn't free, neither is reversing the 150 years of pumping extra CO2 into the air at a rate so high that it would naturally take thousands of years to pump as much into the atmosphere. 
Obviously with this comment you are clearly of the mindset that climate is a problem. 

Are you sure about this, and if so, what makes you so sure of this?
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #6257 on: August 07, 2022, 08:27:23 AM »
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